Every time I pull up a window to get on the internet I see my home page, which is our family blog and I start to feel super guilty that I haven't updated in a while. I know I'm not the greatest blogger, nor the most interesting to read, but I do think it's nice to keep some sort of record of what our family is up to.
The last 2 months have been pretty busy for us. For one, we've been spending more time outside since it's been warm. Playing at the park with friends is a pretty high priority for the girls. But it's good because they get to play with their friends and are pretty tired at the end of the day (that always makes bed time go a little faster when they practically crawl into bed themselves).
In early May, we celebrated Mother's Day and my birthday at my parent's house with a nice family dinner. My mom made this gorgeous and delicious lemon blueberry cake to celebrate.
On the way over to my parents that same day, we stopped at the Timpanogos Temple to let the girls walk around and we were able to snap some great pics!
A couple weeks later we decided to drive up to the Bountiful temple to show the girls where Ben and I got married. We were sad the gates were closed so we couldn't walk the grounds, well Ben and I couldn't walk the grounds. The girls managed to squeeze through the bars and walked around a bit. It was overcast so I got some amazing pictures! Hopefully I can get one printed up for my living room wall sometime.
As far as other updates go, I was recently called into the Relief Society Presidency, so between meetings, activities and preparing talks and lessons (all which I've had to do the past 3 weeks) I don't have much time to get into trouble :) I do keep up on my culinary adventures though, I think it's what keeps me sane. I also bought each of the girls a new dress pattern and some fabric. Shelby has been asking me to sew with her for weeks. So I finally got the push when my friend told me patterns were on sale for 99 cents. I've started Shelby's dress and cut out Erin's so far. Hopefully they will be done in the next 2 weeks or so. I've finally gotten back to running-I had just started training for a half marathon before I got pregnant with Paige, but had to stop for obvious reasons. My next big goal is to do the American Fork Canyon half marathon next summer but I'm sure I'll do a 5k and/or 10k in there in the mean time, most likely after Paige turns 1 in November.
Speaking of running, Ben took up running last fall and started training for the Wasatch Back Ragnar relay race, which took place last weekend. As any race is, it was thrilling for him but he also said it was the most physical thing he's ever done. He had some of his best personal times and did really well. We are very proud of him!
Ben has also had fun taking the girls on daddy-daughter dates to the dollar movies and on short hiking trips. Their most recent one was to Battle Creek Falls in Pleasant Grove. The girls loved it!
All three girls are growing and changing and we just love them to pieces! Paige is getting pretty good at sitting up and is trying to like solid foods, though we can't get her to eat them much. She is very much a momma's girl (momma was her first word, although she just started saying dada this week). Shelby lost her first tooth and was so excited about it. She got a new hello kitty toothbrush under her pillow the night she lost it. Erin runs around all day with boundless energy, sometimes destroying everything she comes in contact with and other times singing at the top of her lungs to her heart's content (and to ours!).
Sister Love while We Were Away
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